In the thick brush of New Mexico’s White Sands National Park, a series of imprints left in ancient dirt continue to confound assumptions about people’s first crossing of the Americas. The marks, preserved in layers of sediment that later hardened into gypsum, were first described in a 2021 study published in the journal Science titled … Read more
For much of the twentieth century, the story of how humans arrived in North America seemed settled. They came from Siberia, crossed a land bridge called the Bering Land Bridge, migrated south as the ice caps receded, and gave rise to the Clovis culture about 13,000 years ago, the earliest widely accepted evidence of human … Read more
The discovery of an ancestral Pueblo burial chamber dating to the eighth century in the barren sandstone passages of a New Mexico canyon has thrown archaeologists completely out of their traditional timeline. According to the National Park Service, the site is sealed in a solid non-Earth isotope complex containing yucca fibers, traditional artifacts, and anomalous … Read more